The UpTake: Halsey Minor has made and lost more money than most people will ever see. Now, as the co-founder of CNET shifts his focus to a Bitcoin startup, he's selling his historic mansion in San Francisco. And it's a bargain fixer-upper listed at $18 million.

L ongtime Bay Area tech player Halsey Minor has put his historic San Francisco mansion on the market at a reduced price while he focuses on a new business venture in the world of bitcoin.

One of those homes is the historic Koshland House in Presidio Heights, also known as Le Petit Trianon because its façade is a near-replica of the 1761 structure by that name built by Louis XV at the palace at Versailles, France.

Minor bought the 17,895-square-foot mansion and detached 2,618-square-foot guesthouse in 2007 for about $18 million. It was put on the market in 2012 for $25 million, but that listing eventually was cancelled. It came back up for sale late last year with a different real estate company at slightly less that $20 million, and the list price was cut a few weeks ago to $17,995,000.

Listing agents Ed Deleski and James Nunemacher of Vanguard Properties describe the property as “one of the city’s most grand estates” on “enormous grounds;” the property occupies close to two-thirds of an acre at the corner of Washington and Maple streets.

It’s also a bit of a fixer-upper. At least two complaints have been filed against the mansion under the city’s vacant or abandoned property ordinance since 2010. The main house has been unoccupied for years, although Minor reportedly has kept some of his belongings in the guest house.

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